Facility Services
Contents
Quality Management
The quality Service provides a centralized monitoring of the quality of the data delivered to the platform.
It monitors
- the quality of each data item delivered to the platform
- the availability of data
- the volume of data
It provides
- KPIs, thresholds and semaphores to the RFF board
- reports to RFF board and participating parties about the quality levels
Content Provisioning
The Content Service provides means to interact with the data provided by the producers of data.
It allows to
- filter
- aggregate
- anonymise
- generate information
- store data intermediately
It checks if access to data is allowed, based on the Identity Service.
It provides access to the data through the Channel Service.
Identity Management
The Identity Service provides information about rights and duties of human and system users.
It provides
- User Management
- rights and duties of human users
- rights and duties of systems
- information about rights and duties to other services within the RU platform
- protocol information to the Quality Service regarding access violations
- security checks based on given tokens and access protocols
License Service
The License Service manages contracts and licenses
It allows
- to manage contracts and licenses
- to notify about timed-out licenses or contracts
- to notify about billing and invoicing
It informs the Identity Service about new, changed or expired access rights of a license or contract
Channel Management
The Channel Service provides a clear definition of offered active communication protocols
It
- offers two separated service types
- one is the management of the decentralized services offered for each platform system. It creates a stable facade for the customer.
- the other is the central component that defines and enforces the defined formats and their services
- in general it provides a channel management (who is providing what in which format with which technology)
- provides integration blueprints and basic functional test capabilities
- provides specifications for format conversions
- passes on the information to the monitoring facility as basis.
Platform Monitoring
- ensures that offered channels are available and operating
- regularely checks the availability of end-to-end communication chains
- informs about service fall outs and recovery
Platform Operation
- load balancing
Marketplace
- Business service catalog
- App Shop
- API Offerings
Hub Connection
Hub services for interconnection with other ecosystems
- RNE for IM
- GCU for WagonKeeper
- VDV for "Small" national RUs
- **tbd** for Authorities
- **tbd** for IntermodalOperator
- **tbd** for Shunter
Service Incubator
Incubation environment to
- develop
- shape and
- train
future smart business services
